Theater News

" Phantom " was a stupendous musical. Who would have thought that two of Andrew Lloyd Webber's works-of-art would be the most phenomenal shows that the Alhambra Theater and Dinning would present within the past eight months.

William Shakespeare's famous tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" is coming to Ringgold, but not likely in a way ever seen before.

You won't see those behind-the-scenes battles in her new concert film, "The MDNA Tour," which premieres Saturday on the online and cable network Epix.

Iran's President-elect Hassan Rohani said he would strive for transparency in his country's nuclear program but would not stop enriching uranium.

For Chris Blackwell, the arrival of one special therapist during his four-hour dialysis sessions is truly music to his ears.

Beatles tribute band Ticket to Ride performs the first show at The Box in the Fox Entertainment Plaza on May 30. City officials will soon choose an operator for the plaza, the Fox Performing Arts Center and the Riverside Municipal Auditorium.

All the world may be a stage, but back in 1983, downtown San Jose was widely regarded as a cultural wasteland.

Historian Charles L. Mee is also a playwright with a lengthy list of works to his credit, but he could more accurately be called an anti-playwright.

A rehearsal of Possum Point Players upcoming dinner theater, "And Then There Were None," finds Kim Klabe of Rehoboth Beach, John Marino of Lewes, Sharon George of Bridgeville, Doug Friend of Lewes, John Levine of Smyrna, Dennis McGeady of Bridgeville, and Thomas Scott Roberts of Lewes discussing the strange manner in which each of them has been ... (more)

A Massachusetts woman says she and her 5-year-old developmentally disabled daughter were thrown out of a Providence, Rhode Island, theater during a "Beauty and the Beast" performance because the girl was making giggling and humming noises she makes when she's happy.

"Les Miserables" will be brought back by popular demand to Maine State Music Theatre from June 26-July 13. Based on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables" tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France.

A $3 million state grant would mean that the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford could begin a major expansion that would accommodate the establishment of a new musical theater program for undergraduates.

This 2001 photo provided by The Second City shows Bernard Sahlins, the co-founder of Chicago's Second City theater.

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," "Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical."

This June 9, 2013 file photo shows Patina Miller accepting her Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her role in "Pippin" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards in New York.

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," ''Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical."

National Theatre Live, which broadcasts stage shows from England to movie screens worldwide, said Monday that its June 13 live broadcast of Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in the play "The Audience" has captured its largest audience to date.

Daily file photo/Mark Fox The Lake Dillon Theatre Company has been appointed Colorado's newest Actors' Equity union theatre.

Hot off the release of their fifth studio album "Resilience," out now on Eleven Seven Music, hard rock band Drowning Pool will make a stop in Portsmouth on as part of their "Resilience Tour".

MCC Theater presents a one-night-only reading of Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute 's The Mercy Seat June 17 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street.